[Minako doesn't broadcast over the vine much, but she's making an exception today. This is important. Her image in the mirror looks anxious, concerned.]

Excuse me, has anyone seen my friend Aigis? She's about my age, blonde, blue-eyed... robotic... probably wearing a uniform that looks like mine?

I know she's probably been... sent home. If she had intended to be gone for this long I'm sure she would have told me. I just wanted to make sure that no one's seen her around in the past few days. If she's still here and in trouble or trapped somehow... well, I'd want to know about it, you know?

[ Should anyone look at the Vine, they would find a young, mousy girl looking back at them. She jumps when a rabbit hops into her lap, and it is only after some hesitation that she reaches her hand out and slowly strokes it. She seems to relax a little after that. ]

This... it's not home. But it's not hell, either.

[Hell. How long had she spent in that terrifying place? She didn't know, and to be honest, she didn't want to. Thinking about it brought up a troubling thought, however. ]

Um... if anyone can hear me... does anyone else see this as a garden? Or is it just me?

[Iceland has stayed away from that weird portal and the creatures that were showing up for the last couple days, but they keep moving into the Gardens, and it's hard to avoid them entirely. It isn't long before she's peeking around a tree, looking at the weird, mermaid-like things in the water.

Too bad she doesn't notice the harpy swooping down at her until it's got her leg in its claws. She shrieks and grabs for the tree.]

H-hey, let go!

[She kicks at the creature, but it's not really getting her anywhere.]